Re: Problem with Encode module

At 10:31 am -0700 23/6/06, Jianyang Tai wrote:

>I encountered some problem with the Encode module when I convert 
>some Japanese contents from shift-jis to utf-8. Basically I am using 
>the from_to subroutine to do the job. All work well except for those 
>number inside a circle characters (8740 ~ 8754). The unicode range 
>for those characters is 2460 ~ 2473. However, the from_to doesn't 
>convert them correctly. For 8740 (1 inside a little circle), what I 
>got was "FFFD 0040". 
>
>Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? Is this a known issue 
>or there is something wrong with the original shift-jis text? Any 
>advise is very appreciated.

Those characters do not exist in shift-jis but only in GB18030 and in 
the MacOS Japanese, Korean and Chinese (both) character sets.

JD